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Lyndon LaRouche issues a sharp warning that a military strike against Iran is being
manipulated by the British, in order to trigger global war, chaos, and the collapse
of the world monetary system. If it happens, the U.S. will be destroyed as well.

“The shattering calamities hitting the U.S. Bush-Cheney Administration,” wrote Lyndon
LaRouche recently, “have brought the role of the United Kingdom’s Blair government
more prominently into focus. Shades of Sykes-Picot, the British Foreign Office, flanked
by France, have assumed a controlling role in the regional developments of the Southwest
Asia region.” Muriel Mirak-Weissbach reviews the history of the secret Sykes-Picot
Agreement of 1916, by which France and Britain redrew the map of the Middle East.

International

Former U.S. President Jimmy Carter’s upbeat assessment of the elections points the
way to a positive potential for the region. Many foresee that victorious Hamas will
seek to shift toward negotiation with Israel, now that it is leading the Palestinian
government. How will Israel respond?

Karsten Werner, a member of the LaRouche Youth Movement in Germany, is campaigning
in Leipzig’s mayoral election, bringing a breath of fresh hope to the discouraged
people of the largest city in Saxony, the state which has Germany’s highest unemployment
rate.

The Administration is stonewalling Congress, but the fight over the Patriot Act’s
most egregious provisions, and illegal NSA spying, is going to merge together as Congress
takes up these issues in the next few weeks.